Multiple Sclerosis Archive

  • Mmmm. Tasty.

    A comment of mine on giving up smoking…

    This is a comment I’ve made on Charlotte Gore’s new post about giving up smoking… I’ve given up twice; yes, I know but that may well happen when you’ve smoked for 8+ years and have all the willpower of a particularly weak willed fruitfly. The first...

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  • MS Society: They DO want to end the Risk Sharing Scheme

    MS Society: They DO want to end the Risk Sharing Scheme

    So at 4:20 (appropriately enough, fact fans), I got off my bum and rang the MS Society to find out answers to the email I’d sent below that had been ignored. I was quickly transfered to the Information Team at that time. They thought it...

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  • MS Society: Sine Qua Non

    MS Society: Sine Qua Non

    I read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8523820.stm Once my apoplexy subsided, I just became incredibly depressed. Then angry. Let me tell you why: The only reason that Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) prescribe Disease Modifying Drugs is because they were FORCED TO by NICE. You can still find places...

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  • Assisted Dying on Conservative Home

    Assisted Dying on Conservative Home

    There’s a niggly article on Conservative Home poo-poohing the idea of legalised assisted suicide with the largely fallacious argument about hypothetical abuse  and an emotive and innaccurate comparisson with abortion. Below is my comment: I have multiple sclerosis and it is quite conceivable that I...

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